“The Academic Inquisition: How Rutgers Weaponised ‘Hindutva’ to Police Hindu Identity”, ForPolIndia, October 29, 2025
“The report published by Rutgers University Law School- Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism is not an academic document. It’s a political sermon disguised in footnotes. Before it even defines its subject, it delivers the verdict: “Hindutva is a transnational far-right ideology grounded in Hindu supremacy.”
That one sentence sets the tone, not of inquiry, but indictment. The rest of the 63 pages read like a charge sheet written by ideological missionaries pretending to be scholars. What Rutgers has built is not a centre for rights, but a pulpit for moral policing, where Hindu belief is placed under permanent suspicion.
The conceit is always the same: Hindutva equals extremism; Hindu equals Hindutva; therefore Hindu life equals extremism. A complete community, millions strong, is dragged into a courtroom it never asked to enter…….”
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